Some very visible changes this month - svg machine canvas icons. For that I needed to add better icon theme support. All icons are now themeable and colors are matched with the theme. Machines now have tiny level-meters embedded in the icon.

I also found a solution for slow start of playback in complexer songs. Data- format-negotiation is not deterministic in all cyclic gstreamer graphs. Proposed patches are attached to Bug 540645.

Finally I got around implementing support for a zip based song format. This can contain binaries (like the samples being used). The loader is based on libgsf, which turned out to be a pleasant experience.

I also added filters to the load and save file-choosers and to the recent-chooser in the new recent menu. Still fighting with the filter not doing a precise detection.

Next on my todo list is refactoring the song io plugin api a bit. Right now there is too much hard-coded data (like mime-types, format names, extensions).